Movie

Praying Mantis (1983)

• April 8, 1983
• 1h 24m

• Mystery

Overview

A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?

Director

Shunichi Kajima

Writers

Makoto Naito, Shunichi Kajima

Starring

Midori Satsuki, Ryô Hayami, Mako Toyoda